Data Architecture Jobs in England

Data Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 265 167
Rank change year-on-year -35 -98 +149
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 492 914 1,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.00% 1.02% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.21% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 259 549 801
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,325 £46,335
25th Percentile £63,625 £64,150 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £102,000 £95,000 £108,365
90th Percentile £120,500 £112,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £79,932 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.09% -0.09% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in England.

Salary trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -7 206 £100,000 +11.11% 305
South East +98 144 £73,238 -13.84% 50
Midlands +20 61 £65,000 +9.61% 25
North of England -109 44 £75,000 -6.17% 51
West Midlands +22 41 £75,000 +26.48% 15
Yorkshire +12 27 £75,000 -6.17% 21
South West +65 25 £60,000 +8.11% 28
East Midlands +31 20 £63,500 +41.11% 9
North West -91 19 £75,000 - 23
East of England +43 4 £80,000 -27.27% 6
North East +13 2 - - 7
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.85%) Apache
4 5 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.81%) Luigi
6 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.41%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.83%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 241 (48.98%) Azure
2 146 (29.67%) AWS
3 95 (19.31%) GCP
4 76 (15.45%) Power Platform
5 66 (13.41%) Snowflake
6 52 (10.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (7.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (4.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.85%) dbt
11 12 (2.44%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.63%) SaaS
13 8 (1.63%) Serverless
14 7 (1.42%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.42%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (1.22%) Collibra
15 6 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (29.27%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (21.95%) Data Lake
3 79 (16.06%) Metadata
4 68 (13.82%) Power BI
5 37 (7.52%) NoSQL
6 26 (5.28%) SQL Server
7 25 (5.08%) Tableau
8 24 (4.88%) Big Data
9 23 (4.67%) Hadoop
10 17 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (2.85%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (2.24%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.83%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.22%) Apache Hudi
15 6 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (1.22%) Data Vault
15 6 (1.22%) Looker
Development Applications
1 15 (3.05%) Git
2 12 (2.44%) JIRA
3 11 (2.24%) ERwin
4 10 (2.03%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.20%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) LSMW
8 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 178 (36.18%) Finance
2 112 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 105 (21.34%) Law
4 93 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.15%) Banking
6 38 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.67%) Financial Institution
8 21 (4.27%) Retail Banking
9 17 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 16 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.64%) Legal
11 13 (2.64%) Retail
12 11 (2.24%) Marketing
13 8 (1.63%) Advertising
14 5 (1.02%) Back Office
14 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.81%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.61%) Billing
16 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 205 (41.67%) Architect
2 147 (29.88%) Data Architect
3 140 (28.46%) Lead
4 87 (17.68%) Senior
5 69 (14.02%) Data Engineer
6 34 (6.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 33 (6.71%) Enterprise Architect
8 25 (5.08%) Lead Architect
9 23 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (3.25%) Developer
11 14 (2.85%) Data Manager
12 13 (2.64%) Head of Architecture
12 13 (2.64%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (2.24%) Azure Data Engineer
13 11 (2.24%) Principal Architect
14 10 (2.03%) Lead Data Architect
14 10 (2.03%) Principal Data Architect
14 10 (2.03%) Senior Architect
15 9 (1.83%) Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.91%) Kafka
2 21 (4.27%) PySpark
3 15 (3.05%) REST
4 13 (2.64%) Middleware
5 11 (2.24%) SOAP
6 8 (1.63%) .NET
6 8 (1.63%) ADO
6 8 (1.63%) MERN Stack
6 8 (1.63%) WebSockets
7 6 (1.22%) PyArrow
8 5 (1.02%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.02%) EDI
8 5 (1.02%) HTML
8 5 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (1.02%) RESTful
9 4 (0.81%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.81%) CSS
9 4 (0.81%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.15%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.64%) Taxonomies
6 11 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.81%) Life Science
8 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.61%) Data Fabric
9 3 (0.61%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.61%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.61%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.41%) FMCG
10 2 (0.41%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (0.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.22%) Unix
2 3 (0.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (53.86%) Data Modelling
2 219 (44.51%) Analytics
3 183 (37.20%) Data Strategy
4 172 (34.96%) Data Governance
5 166 (33.74%) Roadmaps
6 145 (29.47%) Data Management
7 138 (28.05%) Business Intelligence
8 125 (25.41%) Agile
9 117 (23.78%) Data Engineering
10 113 (22.97%) ETL
11 107 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
12 97 (19.72%) Data Pipeline
13 94 (19.11%) Decision-Making
14 71 (14.43%) Artificial Intelligence
15 66 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 63 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
17 62 (12.60%) Business Transformation
17 62 (12.60%) DevOps
18 58 (11.79%) Metadata Management
19 55 (11.18%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 168 (34.15%) SQL
2 106 (21.54%) Python
3 23 (4.67%) Java
4 16 (3.25%) Scala
5 14 (2.85%) C#
6 11 (2.24%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.24%) R
7 7 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (1.42%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.02%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.61%) VB
10 2 (0.41%) Bicep
10 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.41%) SOQL
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) JCL
11 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 99 (20.12%) Degree
2 41 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 34 (6.91%) AWS Certification
4 24 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.05%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.64%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.61%) CITP
9 3 (0.61%) MBA
10 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) MCSE
11 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.20%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (20.93%) Data Quality
2 57 (11.59%) Accessibility
3 40 (8.13%) GDPR
4 30 (6.10%) QA
5 14 (2.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (1.63%) Docker
2 6 (1.22%) HDFS
3 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.83%) Terraform
3 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.20%) Matomo
Vendors
1 116 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 66 (13.41%) Databricks
3 59 (11.99%) SAP
4 29 (5.89%) Google
5 23 (4.67%) IBM
5 23 (4.67%) Informatica
6 20 (4.07%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.42%) Avaloq
7 7 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.22%) Sparx
9 5 (1.02%) Oracle
10 3 (0.61%) Foundry
10 3 (0.61%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.61%) Palantir
10 3 (0.61%) Talend
11 2 (0.41%) Fiserv
11 2 (0.41%) IFS
11 2 (0.41%) iManage
11 2 (0.41%) TSYS
12 1 (0.20%) Workday